Environment & Resources

This Handbook is a comprehensive compilation of current knowledge of food and nutrition security from a global perspective. It is organized into four sections corresponding to the accepted current definitional frameworks, including food availability, access and utilization...

This comprehensive handbook provides a global overview of ocean resources and management by focusing on critical issues relating to human development and the marine environment, their interrelationships as expressed through the uses of the sea as a resource, and the regional expression of these them..

This comprehensive handbook provides a global overview of ocean resources and management by focusing on critical issues relating to human development and the marine environment, their interrelationships as expressed through the uses of the sea as a resource, and the regional expression of these them..

This comprehensive handbook presents a detailed international review of current knowledge and thinking on the resource nexus from an inter-disciplinary perspective...

This Handbook aims to expand the scope of efficient water use to include allocation of sources and quantities across uses and time, as well as integrating demand-management with supply-side substitutes. Mechanisms to incentivize efficient behavior are discussed in the contexts of perfect and imperfe..

In this title, originally published in 1981, the author specifically examines the rural energy development in China as it is the world’s largest developing country in terms of population, and it has encountered many of the rural energy problems common in other developing countries. This is an ideal ..

This book, first published in 1985, provides an overview of resource management, together with a geographical treatment of physical, landscape and social resources. This title will provide important insight for students of geography, resource management, environmental planning and conservation...

This book, first published in 1985, provides an overview of resource management, together with a geographical treatment of physical, landscape and social resources. This title will provide important insight for students of geography, resource management, environmental planning and conservation...

This book brings together the best of science and farmer experimentation, vividly illustrating the enormous diversity of shifting cultivation systems as well as the power of human ingenuity...

This book brings together the best of science and farmer experimentation, vividly illustrating the enormous diversity of shifting cultivation systems as well as the power of human ingenuity...

The ongoing debate concerning the Amazon's crucial role in global climate and biodiversity is entirely dependent upon sustainable development in the region. This book analyses numerous promising local tree and forest management initiatives taken by smallholders in the Bolivian, Brazilian, Ecuadorian..

This book describes the various paradigms underlying soil science and soil fertility research in sub-Saharan Africa over the last fifty years...